Recovery went well. A ground landing. The SPOT satellite tracker worked beyond expectations and will be used on all future flights. For some reason the aprs tracker stopped sending altitude data above 78k feet. The flight reached an estimated 87,000 ft.

Today we started our elementary workshop. 9 students signed up for an intensive high altitude ballooning experience. Monday will be the Ideal Gas Law, Tuesday will be the Atmosphere, Wednesday Ham Radios, Thursday the launch, and Friday data analysis and presentation of results. Below a student presents her experimental proposal.

Currently on the solar eclipse team, SE2017 - The Sunspots, we are working on post flight analysis for NSE-012 and the photometers. The photometers seem to be overloaded when in full sun so we are working on developing shading schemes. the circuit diagram is below. We're using a op amp to boost the small current from the LEDto a voltage that we can read. We've yet to see what LED types can be used for varying frequencies. I would like to get readings at 4 different frequencies. We're taking our lead from Forrest M. Mimms designs. We want to find tune and calibrate the photometers tomorrow.